Thanks to everyone. I had forgotten about bbfind but the solution I ended up using was what Rich had suggested: Extract (and then a bit more processing on the net result). Also, I had to fiddle a bit with the RegEx as it was being too greedy. I'm still struggling to attain expertise with non-capturing parens and positional assertions. Specifically, given:
<DataElement> Fusce rhoncus, elit. [Aenean] eget es? Nulla et arcu. </DataElement> I'd like to find "Nulla" where the text before and after can be anything except </DataElement> (in other words, the contents of an element). Years ago (20?) I saw an article that suggested breaking the text up into (repeatable) fields using RegEx. At the time this seemed so advanced it was more than my little brain could process, but the idea has stuck with me and I now wonder if it would be a better approach than what I'm trying to do. Thanks! On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 9:02 PM Christopher Stone < [email protected]> wrote: > On 04/19/2019, at 07:53, Gustave Stresen-Reuter <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The problem here, though, is that the search results are sent to a search > results window. Is there any way to recreate the behavior of the grep > command above (the output is just the matching data with no filename, line > number, nor context)? > > ------------------------------ > > Hey Ted, > > Try using the `bbfind` command line tool instead of `grep`. > > -- > Best Regards, > Chris > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a > feature request or need technical support, please email > "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit. > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
